(S.181) On the motion to table (kill) the Specter of Pennsylvania Amendment offered to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The amendment would have deleted the phrase “other practices” from the description in the bill of actions that could constitute wage discrimination.
senate Roll Call 9
Jan 22, 2009
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This was a vote on a motion to table (kill) an amendment offered by Sen. Specter (R-PA) to S.181, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a bill that changed the rules regarding the statute of limitations for wage discrimination suits. S.181 would change the existing 180 day statute of limitations for filing a pay discrimination lawsuit so that it would reset with each new paycheck that contained the discriminatory pay. S.181 was developed in response to a 2007 Supreme Court decision holding that the statute of limitations on equal pay law suits begin on the date the pay was originally agreed upon, and not the date of the most recent paycheck. That ruling had prevented Lilly Ledbetter from recovering for unequal pay because she did not learn that she was receiving unequal pay until years after she was hired. |
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